'Honest perv' busted in Internet sting

GREENSBURG, Pa., April 21 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania authorities said one of two men charged with soliciting sex with young girls online described himself as "an honest perv."

State Attorney General Tom Corbett said Scott Buckles, 37, was arrested Friday and charged with propositioning an undercover agent who was posing as a 14-year-old girl in an Internet chat room, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Monday.

Corbett said Buckles wrote in a message to the agent that other people in the chat room would "try and trick ya. I'm an honest perv -- I'm up front about it."

Buckles, who is also accused of asking a 13-year-old girl to send him sexually explicit videos of herself in August, was being held Monday in Westmoreland County Prison on $100,000 bail.

Corbett said a second man, Michael Krivokucha, 20, was arrested after allegedly chatting with an agent posing as a 13-year-old girl. He said the suspect was arrested Wednesday at a fast food restaurant that was intended as a meeting place for him and the fictional teenager. Krivokucha was being held on $50,000 bail in Westmoreland County Prison.